Hi, All; I tried to install exon.pmcdf_1.1.tar.gz package using install.packages() but it didn't with the following messages:
> install.packages('/Users/thchung/Downloads/exon.pmcdf_1.1.tar.gz', repos=NULL) Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'exon.pmcdf_1.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' > sessionInfo() R version 2.7.2 beta (2008-08-16 r46368) i386-apple-darwin9.4.0 locale: C attached base packages: [1] splines tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [8] methods base other attached packages: [1] exonmap_1.6.05 plier_1.10.0 RMySQL_0.6-0 [4] DBI_0.2-4 RColorBrewer_1.0-2 simpleaffy_2.16.0 [7] gcrma_2.12.1 matchprobes_1.12.0 genefilter_1.20.0 [10] survival_2.34-1 affy_1.18.2 preprocessCore_1.2.1 [13] affyio_1.8.0 Biobase_2.0.1 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] AnnotationDbi_1.2.2 RSQLite_0.6-9 annotate_1.18.0 Surprisingly, the R CMD INSTALL mechanism worked: BiobankMacBookPro:Downloads thchung$ R CMD INSTALL exon.pmcdf_1.1.tar.gz * Installing to library '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library' * Installing *source* package 'exon.pmcdf' ... ** R ** data ** help >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'exon.pmcdf' Formats: text html latex example exon.pmcdf text html latex geometry text html latex example ** building package indices ... * DONE (exon.pmcdf) Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Thanks in advance, Tae-Hoon -- Tae-Hoon Chung Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) Korea National Institute of Health Center for Genome Sciences :: Biobank Team (T) +82-2-380-2252 (F) +82-2-354-1078 (M) +82-10-3511-1012 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.